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| Science Fiction Fans : Hugo Nominations for 2008 | | 53 | LamSon, December 2008 | |
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... about a year or so lag between the UK and US version. This harms a lot of good UK books - for example The Quiet War and House Of Suns didn't have a US edition out by the time nominations closed. I don't think The Quiet War has a US edition out yet.
Looking at the full nomination list ... 4*+ this year
(latest read first)
The Ship
the Truth
House of suns
Small favour Proven guilty and White night
Curse of the mistwraith through to fugitive prince (I really need to buy the others)
Not sure about the next trilogy parts 1 and 2 were inventive but the ... ... NtL shorter than his others? It was hard to tell as my copy was published in a strange midsized format.
Also read:
House of Suns Reynolds' latest. Very good superb universe building let down by dropping a few plot points mid-air.
the big Sleep - change of genre into 1930s gritty ... ... Lee Child who's been on top form for the previous 10 books. Hope he regains is skill for the next.
Currently I'm reading House of suns which is fantastic. ... years or so and am now heading for the Sagitarious arm of our Galaxy (I think), definetly on a spaceship somewhere, in house of suns ... trilogy, and found a couple of others readable, but I've bad memories of Hood. Maybe it was just me.
Nothing to lose
house of suns and big sleep on 3 for 2 at Waterstones as I was passing by, not intending to have bought any books. You didn't like Matter? I didn't think it was Banks' best novel, but it was much better than The Algebraist.
I found House of Suns disappointing. I've not read Rolling Thunder yet, but I very much doubt it's award-winning material. Same for Going Under. ... Thunder, Implied Spaces, Palmer's Tracking, Singularlty's Ring
I am almost finished with Saturn's Children and House of Suns (which I started over a month ago and put down). I have Little Brother, Multireal, and The Scourge of God here, but am not expecting much from any of ... Finished Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns. Disappointing. Now started The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. It was supposed to be my classic book for October, but I'm running a bit behind... ... Ken MacLeod
The Hidden World, Paul Park
Astropolis: Earth Ascendant, Sean Williams
Black and White, Lewis Shiner
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
Rolling Thunder, John Varley
The Reef, Mark Charan Newton
Debatable Space, Philip Palmer
Matter, Iain M Banks
Blood in the Fr ... Coincidentally, I've just finished House of Suns. Not his best. Might even be his worst. The plot bogs down to a halt in the middle, the underlying mystery is explained by one character to another two-thirds of the way through, and there's no real feel for the timescales of millions of years. The ... ... Swanwick's The Dragons of Babel for exactly the same reasons.
I have returned to reading Alastair Reynold's House of Suns which I started before our month in Europe, but didn't want to drag along with me. During the past month have mostly read trashy paperback thrillers of no ... ... Swanwick's The Dragons of Babel for exactly the same reasons.
I have returned to reading Alastair Reynold's House of Suns which I started before our month in Europe, but didn't want to drag along with me. During the past month have mostly read trashy paperback thrillers of no ... I'll admit it was a real jolt reading House of Suns after the McCarthy. I had to read the first few paragraphs a couple of times because so much of it was unfamiliar. Funny how you forget to trust the author as much when you read away from sf for a bit... ... done gone reviewed it.
Now reading Al Reynold's House of Suns. ... Roses: How Menstruation Created the World by Judy Grahn
Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths Made Real by Nigel Spivey
House of Suns (Gollancz) by Alastair Reynolds
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
The Shadows: Vampire Huntress Legends by L. A. Banks
L ... ... A sundial in a grave Gentle
A Sourcerer's Treason and Camelot's Honour by Zettel
Galactic North, The Prefect and House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds.
6 of them are full sized hardbacks and 2 more are paperback as big as a full sized hardback and I really, really don't have the space ... ... pile of recent SF books lined up, including Stephen Baxter's Flood, Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns, Alastair Reynolds House of Suns, Greg Bear's City at the End of Time and Greg Egan's Incandescence. This will probably grow as I'm likely to pick up a new Scalzi or two when I'm in NY ... ... novels in this series. For the first time in a long time I have a stack of books to read including Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, Stross' Saturn's Children, and a Douglas Coupland. Looking forward to the new Neil Stephenson in September.
The SF Reading Group that I belong ... House Of Suns is a standalone novel although it shares a background with one of his novellas. My copy of House of Suns arrived from Amazon* yesterday. Much as I'd like to read it straightaway, I have to finish the book I'm currentl;y reading first.
*The order also included The H-Bomb Girl and Emperor by Stephen Baxter, A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr, Rolling Thunder by ... I've just started House Of Suns by Al Reynolds (160 pages in) and so far is proving an excellent read. As a writer he has improved greatly since Revelation Space (his debut novel) IMO. Some good stuff coming out this year that's on my wishlist:
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
The Hidden World, Paul Park
The Steel Remains, Richard K. Morgan
Kéthani, Eric Brown
Omega, Christopher Evans (PS Publishing)
The Night Sessions, Ken MacLeod
Blac ...
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